Seam & binary content downloads

alexg79 Aug 14, 2007 5:23 PM

There may be an obvious solution to this that I've completely missed, but here goes:
What's the best way to allow the user to download arbitrary generated binary content (forum file attachments)? I was thinking of a servlet based solution, but getting hold of an entity manager instance in a pre-JEE5 container is kinda cumbersome. Perhaps there is a simpler solution, maybe involving Seam (and its resource servlet)?

1. Re: Seam & binary content downloads

pmuir Aug 14, 2007 5:28 PM (in response to alexg79)

Take a look at the wiki example, Christian does file downloads there. Longer term I'm working on a s:download component/framework, but have got delayed with the impl.
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2. Re: Seam & binary content downloads

alexg79 Aug 15, 2007 1:39 PM (in response to alexg79)

Okay, it seems to use a servlet that looks up an application scoped component to get hold of an EntityManager instance. This would seem like a better solution than a JNDI lookup that I was doing in my servlet.
The s:download or whatever would still be greatly appreaciated.
The Wiki example seems fairly outdated (look at web.xml). Should I create a JIRA issue on that, or is Christian planning to fix it by 2.0.0GA?
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3. Re: Seam & binary content downloads

christian.bauer Aug 15, 2007 3:27 PM (in response to alexg79)

I'm working 15 hours a day on updating it (and implementing new stuff), patience.
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christian.bauer Aug 15, 2007 3:27 PM (in response to alexg79)

And I'm not touching shit like web.xml until I have to, ie. if something stops working because of it. I don't particularly care what's in it.
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5. Re: Seam & binary content downloads

alexg79 Aug 15, 2007 3:35 PM (in response to alexg79)

And I'm not touching shit like web.xml until I have to, ie. if something stops working because of it. I don't particularly care what's in it.

I appreciate your work, and if I sounded impatient, that was not my intention. I just don't know what's going on inside JBoss, and I was merely concerned for my fellow Seam users. When I was learning Seam, I found it very confusing that different examples had wildly differing configurations, some directly in conflict with what the documentation said.
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